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CPGB video channel

Capitalist crisis

Capitalism hits the fan: a Marxian view
Richard Wolff a professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst talks on the current “financial” crisis and capitialism in general. This talk was presented by the Asociation for Economic and Social Analysis and the journal Rethinking Marxism

Marx and the credit crunchIstván Mészáros

The capitalist crisis and the tasks of communists
Chris Strafford Communist Students

Iran and the threat of war

Smash the Sanctions
John McDonnell MP launches the Smash the Sanctions campaign at the Hands Off the People of Iran conference, December 13 2008.

Hands Off the People of Iran meeting
Torab Saleth (Workers Left Unity Iran) and Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian (Students for Freedom and Equality in Iran) addressed a meeting organised by the Kings’ College student society of ‘Hands Off the People of Iran’

Iran and imperialism
Yassamine Mather (Hands Off the People of Iran) speaks on Iran and imperialism at Communist University North on May 3 2008.

Iran and the threat of war
Torab Saleth (Hands Off the People of Iran & Workers Left Unity Iran) looks at the nature of the Iranian regime and its relationship with the United States. He describes the history of theconflict and goes behind the current media speculation to explain what is really going on in the Middle East. This meeting took place at Queen’s University Belfast on Thursday April 10 2008.

Torab Saleth responds to questions and points from audience members.

Hands Off the People of IranJohn McDonnell MP addresses the June 14-15 2008 weekend school of Hands Off the People of Iran. He argues that anti-war activists in Britain should not only oppose imperialism’s war plans, but also be in active solidarity with the workers, women’s and students movements in Iran.

The politics of Hands Off the People of Iran
Yassamine Mather (Workers Left Unity Iran) and Ben Lewis (CPGB and Communist Students) explain the politics behind the campaign

Hands Off the People of Iran and trade unions
Dave Vincent, a militant in the PCS union, talks about working class opposition to war

Ireland and the evolution Sinn Fein’s politics
Presented by Kevin Bean author of the new book The New Politics of Sinn Fein [click here to read the review that appeared in the Weekly Worker; click here for an interview with Kevin Bean]

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Alternative Publications and Cards –
– we distribute…
1. “HIDDEN WOUNDS” Brutalised soldiers are coming home to brutalise…
About the rehabilitation / psychological problems that Northern Ireland veterans experience on their return to civvy street and the number who end up in HM prisons. Also comment on Vietnam veterans. By former soldier
Alistair Renwick. £4.99. (nb. Between 1984 and 2006, 687 serving soldiers committed suicide-MoD statistics)

They ask me where I’ve been
And what I’ve done and seen.
But what can I reply
Who knows it wasn’t I,
But someone just like me
Who went across the sea
And with my head and hands
Killed men in foreign lands…
Though I must bear the blame,
Because he bore my name. Wilfred Gibson 1WW vet

2. “NOTHING BUT THE SAME OLD STORY” – the roots of anti-Irish racism by Liz Curtis.
“I welcome this book and feel it will help play a valuable part in helping to remove the negative and racist stereotyping which so often adversely effects the Irish community in Britain.” Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London. £2.50

Part of our Irish Studies series – includes books and videos. Ask for separate leaflet.
3. An Interlude with Seagulls – Memories of a Long Kesh internee by Bobby Devlin. ‘I went into Castlereagh a poor, humble postman, but according to information received, I was a brigadier-general in the Irish Republican Army. This dramatic promotion must have even eclipsed General Custer’s meteoric rise in the American civil war. £1.50 scarce

4. …LAST NIGHT ANOTHER SOLDIER…by Alistair Renwick. A novel written by an ex-soldier. Not for the
faint hearted, it deals with the reality of British soldiers experience in Northern Ireland. £3.95

5. Cormac Strikes Back – resistance cartoons from the North of Ireland. Cormac is a radical and very popular Belfast cartoonist. Introduction by Guardian cartoonist
Steve Bell. £2.50

6. British Soldiers Speak Out on Ireland. 1969-198? A real exposé by ex squaddies. Some then on the run. Published at 40p scarce item now £5.00. Only a few

7. THEY SHOOT CHILDREN – between April 1972 and April 1986, 16 people, seven of them children, were killed by plastic and rubber bullets. £1.00 scarce

Also – Peace Cards, Rebel Cards, May Day Cards, Celtic art workshops and exhibitions – we attend community festivals.

8. Selected Short Stories Of Donall MacAmhlaigh. – Northampton based writer and chronicler of the Irish working experience in Britain, author of An Irish Navvy,
Schnitzer O’Shea, An Dialann Deoraí etc. £6.00